President Van Buren addressing the “Patriot War” wherein Americans in 1838, aided Canadian patriots fighting the colonial government. For example, Samuel Snow and his fellow..... Read More about Northern Frontier. Message From the President of the United States, Upon the Subject of the...
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The steamer Caroline was burned in the Niagara River during the “Patriot War” or Canadian Rebellion of 1837–1838. [Washington, D.C.] House of Representatives Doc. 33..... Read More about Two House Documents on The Burning of The Caroline:] Burning of the Caroline. Message from the...
Gouverneur High School was incorporated in 1828 in St. Lawrence County, New York. Out of it grew Gouverneur Wesleyan Seminary, conducted by the Black River..... Read More about Catalogue of the Officers and Students of Gouverneur High School, for the Year ending July 10th,...
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Yonkers, Westchester County, New York tavern-keeper’s bond issued to Caleb Smith and John Williams. Smith is particularly enjoined to ensure that the inn or tavern..... Read More about 1832 Yonkers, New York Tavern-Keepers’s Bond; Partly Printed Document
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Yonkers, Westchester County, New York grocer’s bond issued to Aaron Vark and William Norman. The bond pertains mostly to the sale of “...strong and spiritous..... Read More about 1833 Yonkers, New York Grocer’s Bond; Partly Printed Document
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Scarce lithographic view book of resort locations and hotels mostly in New York State and the Adirondack Mountains. The view book’s 14 leaves fold out..... Read More about Adirondack Mountains:] Renowned Places in the United States. [cover title
Published by antiquary and bookseller William Gowans, an 1862 edition of this late 17th century description of New York City and New York Province and..... Read More about A Description of the Province and City of New York; with Plans of the City and Several Forts as...
Facsimile edition of this 1693 William Bradford imprint. With an Introductory Note by Adelaide R. Hasse. “This was Frontenac’s expedition against the Iroquois, during which..... Read More about A Narrative of an Attempt Made by the French of Canada Upon the Mohaque’s Country, Reproduced...
History of missionary outreach to Native Americans and African Americans by the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts in colonial New..... Read More about Anglican Humanitarianism in Colonial New York
Diverse group of mid-Victorian scroll saw-related material including trade literature, marketing materials, and oversized pattern sheets for creating fretwork designs in the Queen Anne Revival..... Read More about C. 1877–1881 Scroll Saw Group: Trade Catalog, Chromolithographic Trade Cards, and Oversized...
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Map of of the town of Chautauqua, New York, situated on Chautauqua Lake in western New York State. The town was the location of the..... Read More about Chautauqua. [map
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Map of of the town of Chautauqua, New York, situated on Chautauqua Lake in western New York State. The town was the location of the..... Read More about Chautauqua. [map, pre-1896
Facsimile reprints of four state or national Colored Conventions convened by African Americans in the mid-19th century. Each has a modern bibliographical note and/or historical..... Read More about Afro-American History Series, Collection 5: Convention Pamphlets [facsimile reprints of four...
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Archive of 21 loose photographs showing highway automobile accidents in Westchester County, New York as documented by New York State Troopers out of Troop K...... Read More about Twenty-one C.1940 Police Photographs Documenting Automobile Accidents in New York State
Register or handbook for the United States Military Academy at West Point issued in 1850. Includes lists of cadets arranged by class and by “order..... Read More about Official Register of the Officers and Cadets of the U.S. Military Academy, West Point, New-York....
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Taken less then a month before Grant’s death, this cabinet card shows former president Ulysses S. Grant, seated on porch at center. he is surrounded..... Read More about Gen. U.S. Grant and Family at Mt. McGregor, [Saratoga Springs] N.Y. June 19, 1885 [Cabinet...
The Pennsylvania Railroad is trying to drum up business in 1883 and here make their appeal to the excursion committees of churches and societies. In..... Read More about Special Excursions to the Sea-Shore and Mountains. Season of 1883
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Photograph of a group of military cadets in uniform at Cayuga Lake Military Academy in Aurora, New York. A drum head or shield in the..... Read More about C.1880s Albumen Photograph of Cadets at Cayuga Lake Military Academy, Aurora, New York
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Unrecorded on OCLC, a rare and ephemeral campaign biography throwaway from the 1888 New York gubernatorial race which re-elected sitting-Governor David B. Hill to a...... Read More about 1892 U.S. Presidential Candidate:] An Outline of the Official Life and Public Services of His...
Two large ledger books containing handwritten minutes and reports from the Young Men’s Christian Association or YMCA of Auburn, New York, 1885–1910. These two separate..... Read More about 1885–1910 YMCA Manuscript Minute Books from Auburn, New York with Related Letters, Manuscripts...
A letter from Presbyterian, impoverished preacher Oren Brown whose pecuniary situation forces him to cancel his subscription to the Biblical Repertory of Philadelphia. Brown has..... Read More about 1840 Autograph Letter Signed by East Groveland, New York preacher Oren Brown
Most nineteenth century trade cards do not bear an imprint. This one does, in this instance, advertising a resort house in popular Lake George, New..... Read More about Trade Card:] 1860s to 1870s Rockwell Bros. Proprietors. Lake House…Lake George, New York
I am uneasy in my mind continually: there seems to be in decision, a want of stern unbending integrity of purpose; and yet a desire..... Read More about Diary for 1844 kept by a Young Man in Albany and Troy, New York starting a Business and...
A two-panel comic is seen on the back cover of Hudson River Wire Works brochure for a new clothes line style aimed at the woman..... Read More about New Patent White Wire Clothes Line. $10,000 Reward for a Superior Article [caption title
